English 12-H Vocab Midterm CHS
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Created by:
diegoesbobo on January 15, 2009
Subjects:
Cheltenham, Molush, Vocabulary, English
Description:
Mr. Molush's vocab for the midterm
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 adverse | contrary to your interests or welfare |
| apostrophe | The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction |
| bailiff | an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc. |
| bemused | perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements |
| cadence | a recurrent rhythmical series |
| chimney-sweep | someone who cleans soot from chimneys |
| dexterous | skillful in physical movements |
| duns | a color varying around light grayish brown |
| hackney | a compact breed of harness horse |
| laggard | someone who takes more time than necessary |
| pare | decrease gradually or bit by bit |
| repatee | a quick, witty reply |
| ruddy | inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life |
| syllogistic | pertaining to logic and deductive reasoning |
| turnkey | someone who guards prisoners |
| veneration | a profound emotion inspired by a deity |
| wane | a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) |
| wax | increase, grow |
| ballad | Any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form. |
| ballad meter | a four-line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four |
| blank verse | unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) |
| free verse | unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern |
| terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. |
| epistolary novel | novel written as a series of documents |
| stream-of-consciousness novel | A novel that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur |
| ode | a lyric poem with complex stanza forms with intended praise |
| villanelle | highly structured poem consisting of six stanzas: five tercets and a quatrain; first and third line are repeated throughout |
| sestina | highly structured poem with 39 lines, iambic pentameter, and repetition of six words from first stanza in each of six stanzas |
| sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme |
| Victorian novel | a novel written in the victorian period whose characteristics include the individual in society, righteousness, free will vs. fate, and the opressed |
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